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From: Raymond Scholz <rscholz@tzi.de>
Subject: Quoted characters in From: line
Date: 16 Dec 1999 18:50:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3puw6rczt.fsf.emacs.gnus@rscholz.dyndns.org> (raw)

Some people use nicknames in their From: line like:

From: "John \"Foo\" Doe" <john@doe.com>

Gnus currently displays that in the summary buffer as:

John \

RFC822 tells me that quoting with `\' is allowed for quoted-strings
(i.e. strings surrounded by `"'s). I think Gnus is wrong in truncating
the name. This may also apply to other lines in the header.

[Ugh, quoted-printable with =, quoting characters with \, quote
delimiter ", and quoting of citations with >, this confuses me...]

Cheers,
  Ray 

P.S.: Can I switch off the behaviour that message mode thinks, _any_
line beginning with a single word and a colon needs to be
highlighted. Even in the body of the message? (The P.S.: line is an
example of this). Wouldn't it make more sense to restrict this
behaviour by regarding `gnus-visible-headers' f.e.?

-- 
Raymond Scholz -*- rscholz@tzi.de -*- http://www.tzi.de/~rscholz/
FB 3 Informatik, Universität Bremen -*- PGP key available via WWW



             reply	other threads:[~1999-12-16 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-12-16 17:50 Raymond Scholz [this message]
1999-12-17 10:08 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-12-19  5:56 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1999-12-21 21:04 ` message fontifying (was: Re: Quoted characters in From: line) Kai Großjohann

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